Numbers 23:7-8

WEB⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel. ⁸ How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

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he took.
Numbers 23:18; Numbers 24:3; Numbers 24:15; Numbers 24:23; Job 27:1; Job 29:1; Psalms 78:2; Ezekiel 17:2; Ezekiel 20:49; Micah 2:4
Habakkuk 2:6; Matthew 13:33; Matthew 13:35; Mark 12:12
parable.The word {mashal,} which as a verb is to rule, have authority, and also to compare, as a noun signifies whatever is expressed in parabolic or figurative language. All these oracular speeches of Balaam are in hemistich metre in the original. They are highly dignified and sublime; and may be considered as immediate poetic productions of the Spirit of God. (ch. 24:2.)
Aram.
Numbers 22:5; Genesis 10:22; Genesis 28:2; Genesis 28:7; Deuteronomy 23:4
Come.
Numbers 22:6; Numbers 22:11; Numbers 22:17; Proverbs 26:2
defy Israel.
1 Samuel 17:10; 1 Samuel 17:25; 1 Samuel 17:26; 1 Samuel 17:36; 1 Samuel 17:45; 2 Samuel 21:21; 2 Samuel 23:9